My guest on the podcast this week is Dara Hoffman-Fox. Dara is a Licensed Professional Counselor and gender therapist in private practice who works with transgender, gender non-conforming, and gender questioning individuals. She frequently serves as a resource on transgender issues for the media and is a prolific gender-identity thought leader whose articles and videos have empowered thousands worldwide. She provides educational resources through a blog (darahoffmanfox.com), YouTube channel, social media networks, trainings, and presentations, and is the author of You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to Discovery.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

• Gender therapy, working with people on transgender issues
• Creating a more welcoming world for people who are transgender
• Helping people with their gender identity
• How transgender issues touch upon most people’s lives
• Why more people will start to come out with future generations
• Looking at America’s history of previously oppressed groups
• Creating a better society by opening up to social groups
• What it means to be transgender
• Why physiology and genitalia don’t specifically relate to gender
• How transgender forms through discomfort of an assigned gender
• The challenges and experiences people go through
• Overcoming repressed feelings
• Dealing with decisions on a daily basis driven by gender (e.g. Which public bathroom to use)
• Why trans people don’t get to choose their gender
• The transition differences between male and female
• How puberty effects the transition differences
• Getting support from friends and family
• Q&A from listeners